I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,… — Bono Copy Share Image
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret?… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing… — Paul O. Zelinsky Copy Share Image
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I found Esau’s field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read.… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I'm a wide-open book. I talk to guys coming out in the draft every year. I'm a wide-open book. I'll give you… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses—and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
